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Reducing the vibrations coming into your mind

Mined from the notebooks, Sunday morning, November 15, 2020. Posted Thursday morning, November 26.

The Quantock Hills in North Somerset, England, where Samuel Taylor Coleridge went walking in the early 1790s to get away from the “noise” that interfered with his mind’s engagement with the world. Photo by Celia Kozlowski via Wikimedia Commons by way of the Coleridge Memorial Trust.

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge recommended getting off Twitter and Facebook 200 years before there was Twitter or Facebook…

Sedation was one of the roots of understanding. Too much noise interfered with the mind’s engagement with the world. Only when you reduced the vibrations coming into your mind, and into your self, could things begin to seem as they were.

---from “The Making of Poetry Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels” by Adam Nicolson.

Lance Mannion on Thursday, November 26, 2020 in Blogs About Town, Morning Song | Permalink

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